This Weekend's football action

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Saturday, June 28
Carlow v Waterford, Dr. Cullen Park, 2pm
Tyrone v Louth, Omagh, 2.30pm
Cavan v Westmeath, Kingspan Breffni Park, 3pm
Armagh v Monaghan, Clones, 7pm - Live on Sky Sports and GAA Go

Electric Ireland Connacht Minor Football Championship Semi-Finals
Galway v Mayo, Tuam Stadium, 6.30pm
Roscommon v Leitrim, Hyde Park, 7.30pm
Electric Ireland Ulster Minor Football Championship Semi-Final
Armagh v Monaghan, Clones, 5pm

Sunday, June 29
Down v Leitrim, Páirc Esler, Newry, 2pm
Kildare v Meath, Croke Park, 2pm - Live on RTÉ and GAA Go
Dublin v Wexford, Croke Park, 4pm - Live on RTÉ and GAA Go

A thread for this weekend's action that isn't covered by match threads elsewhere.

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Radio link for the Carlow game

http://kclr96fm.com/livestream/carlow.php

Will be interesting to see how Carlow will react to their drubbing by Meath.

What sort of shape are Tyrone in against Louth? Tyrone's 4th game of the Championship already and still a long way to go to the final.

Cavan v Westmeath should be an intriguing game.

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KCLR didnt have the mic set up properly for the national anthem so it sounded like it was about 3/4 miles away. Classic local radio.

I did learn a new word - "Carlovians" meaning people from Carlow.

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0-0 and the feed from KCLR is gone - playing that weird Ke$ha C&W hip-hop song all of a sudden.

back to feed - Waterford 2 points up. sounds fairly scrappy stuff.

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Waterford 3 points to 1 up. Carlow just hit the post with a free. 13 minutes gone

"makes a race-horse out of the Waterford man"

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Carlow hit the post again. Same post.

"No shaving foam here. it's not the World Cup"

Still 3 points to 1.

Waterford 4 wides Carlow 2 wides
Carlow playing against a wind that sounds strong.

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Carlow shot at goal and hit the cross-bar. Out for a 45.

Constant technical problems for KCLR -

Carlow hit the 45 wide.

Waterford 4 points to 1.

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Waterford hit the post as well.

Carlow get a 2nd point. 4 points to 2.

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Some soppy love ballad interrupts play all of a sudden then cuts back to a score for Carlow and then dead air.

Now back to the ballad.

Waterford 5 Carlow 3

Brilliant save by Waterford keeper out for 45.

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Waterford 1-6 Carlow 0-6 at half-time

Sounds like a horror mixup in the Carlow defence pretty much gave Waterford the goal.

Free hit the post again but went over for Carlow.

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Off to http://www.lmfm.ie/Home for Tyrone v Louth

Tyrone 3 points to nil up after 5 minutes.

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Tyrone 5 Louth 2 after 12 minutes.

Sounds like Tyrone fairly comfortable at the moment.

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20 minutes gone

Tyrone 7 Louth 2

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Tyrone 7 Louth 6 - Louth went on a quick burst off scoring to close the gap.

Can Tyrone respond?

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Tyrone 9 Louth 6

Tyrone with 2 frees to open a bit of a gap just before HT.

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Tyrone 9 Louth 7 HT

sounds like Louth making much more of a game of it after a slow start.

Hulk Hands

Carloe beating Waterford. Pathetic stuff from Waterford

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Carlow 0-13 Waterford 1-9

Carlow pride restored anyway after the Meath game but can they get the result?

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KCLR are my new favourite radio station.

Commentary vanished and Kylie comes on for a few seconds then back to the game.

21 minutes gone.

Commentator describing some woman gone out to the shop as she cant watch.

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Carlow 0-14 Waterford 1-9

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Carlow 0-14 Waterford 1-10
26 minutes gone.

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Carlow 0-15 Waterford 1-10

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"benny benny benny benny benny benny benny benny benny"

Player named benny gets nothing from a goal chance

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Black card for Carlow

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Carlow 0-15 Waterford 1-12

Commentator - "It better not go to extra-time as I've to get to Tullamore, so you'll be doing the commentary Willie"

"They're sticking to them like plasters"

"Danger. Danger here. Danger not averted. Still Danger"

"Was that harsh or was it what?" - ref

31 minutes gone

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Carlow go for a goal but keeper saves it.

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Carlow point to go a point ahead.

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"I don't want added times or extra time or injury time - I want to go to Tullamore"

Free for Carlow to go 2 points ahead

17 points to 1-12

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"it's like sitting in the Dail - we don't know what's happening"

into injury time.

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"I'd say we're bombarded by listeners across the world wide web"

3rd black card for Carlow.

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Carlow win.

All over.

"Any lad telling a fellow not to wear the Carlow jersey - He should be seeked out and shafted from the GAA"

djPSB

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Carlow win.

All over.

"Any lad telling a fellow not to wear the Carlow jersey - He should be seeked out and shafted from the GAA"

Well done Carlow.

Did well to come back from Meath annihilation.

Felexicon

Cheers man, that was a great read.

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Tyrone back in control v Louth

Tyrone 2-12 Louth 0-7


Cavan v Westmeath - not getting great reviews on Newstalk. - "a 50/50 game but boring"

Cavan 0-4 Westmeath 0-3.

http://www.newstalk.ie/player/

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Cavan 0-5 W'meath 0-7

Newstalk seems so sedate compared to the madness that was KCLR fm ; probably not helped by the nature of the game.

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Cavan 0-6 Westmeath 0-7

Cavan do have the wind at HT

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Tyrone 2-19 Louth 0-8

Louth 1 pont in the 2nd half Tyrone 2-10

Ouch !!!

djPSB

One thing to note.

It seems the lower division teams are able to compete with the better teams for the first half before fading away.

E.g. Laois v Dublin, Antrim v Donegal, Louth v Tyrone.

Fireball07

Good win for Carlow, expected Waterford to win that one.


Pity about Louth, seemingly blown away in the 2nd half.

Westmeath-Cavan sounds tight.

theoneeyedman

What's the story with all the afternoon throw Ins? Is this a consequence of the $ky deal or What? I always enjoyed the atmosphere at Saturday evening championship or qualifier games, and am wondering if they are a thing of the past.

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djPSB wrote: »

One thing to note.

It seems the lower division teams are able to compete with the better teams for the first half before fading away.

E.g. Laois v Dublin, Antrim v Donegal, Louth v Tyrone.

Subs and fitness are big factors -

The "bigger" teams will have much better quality players on their subs bench.

There's also the fact that the pace of the different divisions as regards fitness.

I remember watching the league finals last year and on Saturday it was Division 4 and then Division 3. Then Sunday Division 2 and Division 1.

The pace of the games just went up drastically as the weekend went on.

There's also the fact that the bigger teams wouldn't be viewing the lesser teams as serious threats so the intensity isn't likely to be 100% from the off.

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theoneeyedman wrote: »

What's the story with all the afternoon throw Ins? Is this a consequence of the $ky deal or What? I always enjoyed the atmosphere at Saturday evening championship or qualifier games, and am wondering if they are a thing of the past.

might be - there's no football game this evening apart from the one on Sky -might be a condition of the sky deal.

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Cavan 1-8 Westmeath 0-8 after 7 minutes in the 2nd half.

in a low-scoring game could be key.

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Tyrone 2-21 Louth 0-10

Statement of intent by Tyrone ?

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Cavan 1-11 Westmeath 0-8 20 minutes left.

Cavan driving on now.

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Cavan 1-12 Westmeath 0-10 15 minutes left.

5 players left the Westmeath panel to head to the US after the loss to Louth.

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Cavan 1-14 Westmeath 1-10 12 minutes left.

Do Westmeath have a spark of hope?

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Cavan 1-14 Westmeath 1-11 12 minutes left.

Down to 3 point gap now all of a sudden.

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Cavan 1-15 Westmeath 1-11 8 minutes left.

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Cavan 1-15 Westmeath 1-13 5 minutes left.

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Cavan 1-15 Westmeath 1-13

into injury time.